On 3/6/07, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

On 4.3.2007, at 0.11, Malaney J. Hill wrote:

> I recently installed dovecot1.0rc25 on my RHEL4 system running
> postfix and wish to use both virtual and system users. Virtuals
> work fine, but I get authentication failures with system users.
> I've tried pam, passwd and shadow.
..
> auth default:
> user: nobody

You're running dovecot-auth as nobody. I'm guessing nobody doesn't
have access to /etc/shadow.

Correct, nobody does not have access to /etc/shadow and never will. How do I resolve this?
Do I have to create a separate password file for my system users? Or is there a better alternative.

MJH